Ep. 46 - Jen Barnes, CEO & Founder, Rough & Tumble Owner, Salmon Bay FC

About this episode

Jen Barnes discusses her journey in founding the first women's sports bar in the U.S. and promoting gender equity in sports viewing.

On this episode of “Girl, How’d You Get That Gig?”!, we meet Jen Barnes, Founder and CEO of the first women’s sports bar in the country, the “Rough & Tumble Pub”, in Seattle. Talk about having a vision. When Jen realized the women’s game she wanted to watch was being shown NOWHERE she decided to change the narrative and build the world’s first company purpose-built to promote gender equity in sports viewing and fandom. Now with women’s sports exploding, so is her business.

People in this episode

Guest: Jen Barnes

Topics covered

• women's sports
• gender equity
• sports bar
• entrepreneurship
• sports fandom

Keywords

• women's sports
• Rough & Tumble Pub
• Jen Barnes
• gender equity
• sports viewing
• entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rough & Tumble Pub, Salmon Bay FC

Places: Seattle

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